Today marks the start of the first competition on RunawayJane.com, in a series of mini-competitions on the site which will be taking place in the build up to my departure from Edinburgh to Beijing in May by rail. There will be lot’s of opportunities for people to win prizes between now and May 14th when I depart. The first prize up for grabs is a FREE copy of “How to teach English overseas” by Matthew Kepnes, a.k.a Nomadic Matt. Matt has been kind enough to offer a copy of his ebook for FREE to the winner.Yay Matt!

All you’ve got to do to be in with a chance of winning is retweet this article to all of your twitter followers! That’s it. Simple, huh? Be sure to include @runawayjane in your tweet so I can see you’ve tweeted, including a link or short link to the article, and include the title “Win a FREE copy of Nomadic Matt’s book” in the tweet. I’ll pick the winner at random this time next week. It’s really that simple!

And for those of you who may already have Matt’s teaching english overseas book, you’ll still have lot’s of chances to win other travel goodies in the coming weeks, so be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed to keep up to date.